MEXICO CITY – Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tried to focus attention Monday on the high number of women in his cabinet, and not on the fact he has refused to break with a governorship candidate accused of rape.
Women’s Day marches Monday are focusing the spotlight on López Obrador’s contradictions. A progressive who says “the poor come first,” the president is also a social conservative, who leaves abortion largely to state legislation and says the family is the center of society.
Those contradictions were on display in Mexico City's vast central plaza, after the government erected steel anti-riot barricades in front of the National Palace, while activists quickly adorned the structures with flowers and the names of